PHENOMENON Sun the unusual are almost always associated with the Apocalypse. Like what just happened until it went viral on social media, the sun turned white. Is it a sign of the apocalypse?
Quoted from Harianjogja.com, this assumption refers to one of the predictions of Sabdo Palon Noyo Genggong, it is stated that one of the signs of a pralaya or change from the old age to the new era is the occurrence of solar pehak.
Researcher from the Center for Space Science (Pussainsa) LAPAN, Andi Pangerang in his writings on the official Pussain website, explained that literally, the sun appears to have turned white, which can be interpreted as a twilight realm or the day is dim like night.
The day referred to here is calculated from sunrise to sunset. The sun’s rays, which are usually reddish at sunrise and sunset, will turn white, while when the sun rises, the sun’s rays are not so hot because they are blocked by a kind of cloud.
“This incident can last for seven to forty days at most,” he wrote.
If it is associated with the Surya Pethak phenomenon, namely the Sun that turns white during the day from sunrise to sunset, there is a possibility that clouds that can block sunlight through the Earth’s atmosphere can be caused by volcanic eruptions or changes in sea water circulation that can increase evaporation of water vapor. It is very unlikely that the cloud cover that covers the Earth’s surface is caused by a prolonged decline in solar activity, as happened from 1645 to 1715.
The phenomenon is also known as the Maunder Minimum, after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder and his wife Annie Russell Maunder. This phenomenon occurred during the “Little Ice Age” or low average temperatures for the European region for a long time, between 1550 and 1850.
However, there is insufficient evidence that this Maunder Minimum could have caused the Little Ice Age, moreover, the beginning of the Minor Ice Age was a hundred years earlier than the Maunder Minimum. He explained there is a reason why the sun and sky appear reddish at sunrise and sunset, and why they are white and the sky blue.
The sunlight we see belongs to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the Sun, known as visible light, looks white but consists of a spectrum of colors having different wavelengths, of which purple has the shortest wavelength and red has the longest wavelength.
The spectrum of different colors can be observed through a prism or when a rainbow appears in the sky. Sunlight that comes to Earth before first passes through the Earth’s atmosphere. Well, because Earth’s atmosphere is mostly composed of gas molecules, with oxygen (O2) levels around 21% and nitrogen (N2) around 78%.
In addition, water molecules (H2O) in the form of droplets (water droplets), ice crystals and water vapor, as well as particles such as dust, pollutants and ash can be found in the atmosphere, where the larger molecule density is closer to Earth and the density decreases with time. with increasing height from the Earth’s surface.
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